-Dr. Low pointed out that although the problem of constracting a machine sufficiently powerful to propel wireless waves the necessary distance was not insoluble, the tact that the waves travel in curves, and not in straight lines, made this form of communication very difficult. He also does not favour smoke-signalling.
"OF course it is extremely likely that there is life on Mars," he said, but to assume that life there is similar to our own is ludicrous.
"Some years ago we thought that animals and plants were the only things which lived. Now we'know that there is life in everything, "I have never seen anything yet which was not. alive.
"The rate St living is the crux of matter. We human_ beings must seem like butterflies to a turtle,. while it is conceivable that a creature which lived very, very slowly would think the rate of-living of a stone quite fast.
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